Honestly though, I'm so glad for Sci-Hubs existence. Without it I can access fucking 30 year old papers on I2L that really should be in the public domain by now, but no, IEEE thinks it should get 30$ a paper.

>>11701723arent you part of a company or college if you are you can just access all this shit. i just go to the library and ask the librarian and they have all the accounts for the shit and she just prints it out for me for free. i see no reason for this to exist.

>>11702665>read abstract>paper looks relevant to current project>write down title and journal>repeat 50 times>make a trip to the library>spend 30 minutes searching for the articles again and printing them>later>flip through massive stack of papers trying to remember what your train of thought was when you read each abstract.

>>11702695>a slight decrease in time wasted of going to library is revolutionary and saving scienceSure i do agree if you are lazy or live far away from the library it’s very convenient but it’s not life saying or revolutionary.

Just because someone doesn't have the same resources as you doesn't mean they don't have the drive and desire to do research. Creating arbitrary expensive barriers is just retarded. Go shill elsewhere.

>>11702721Sure it’s useful for people outside the scientific community I agree with you. The people don’t have the resources to access these scientific journals so this site will help them this is a good thing.

>>11702729Just because someone is in the scientific community doesn't mean they have access to these journals. As I already stated the UC system literally dropped Elsevier, and by most standards they are literally one of the top research communities on the planet.

>>11702706Fix the system. Including the whole scientific system.In the EU all reseach should be at least open access but isn't.Imo it needs some form of authority to enforce some kind of law that makes almost all reseach open access or commons-licensed.In practice and the near term we just need to make sure sci hub thrives.

>>11702803>takes 10 years to implement>private journals still exist for another 10 years>leeches look for another racket to latch onto; implement "gold accounts," DRM and other freemium garbage>costs get passed onto researchers: $2000/paper just to submit a draft>original EU legislators go senile, regulations relax>current year+20 is exactly the same, only worse

>>11701723>In 2017, Russian and Mexican entomologists named a species of parasitoid wasp Idiogramma elbakyanae in reference to Sci-Hub's creator, Alexandra Elbakyan.>Elbakyan was offended by the naming, and subsequently blocked access to Sci-Hub's services in the Russian Federation.how "idealistic"

>>11701723>In 2017 a species of parasitoid wasps discovered by Russian and Mexican entomologists was named after Elbakyan (Idiogramma elbakyanae).[28] Elbakyan was offended by this, writing, "If you analyse the situation with scientific publications, the real parasites are scientific publishers, and Sci-Hub, on the contrary, fights for equal access to scientific information."[29] Following this event, and in the context of her long-running tense relations with the liberal, pro-Western wing of the Russian scientific community, she blocked access to Sci-Hub for users from the Russian Federation.holy fuck based

>>11702457Use firefox and enable DNS over HTTPS in the settings (you might need the desktop version for that). Most (all?) ISP blocks are just DNS blocks, so you can circumvent them by using a different DNS.

>>11703492She's not a communist. You're just a fag who hates her because she opposes the US spreading "democracy". >>11703581She's ethnically Armenian, Slavic, and central Asian and culturally Russian.

>>11704407I read the same Wikipedia page as you. She is inspired by communist ideals but is not a marxist. Believes that communism goes well with science. Many things are communists, of you wanna split hairs. Being treated equally is not the same as suppression and robbery.

>>11704935she said she's not a "strict marxist", but no one is these days except retards that haven't realized or can't accept that 200 years have passed since Marx was writing and the world has changed somewhat. I'd read from that that she is a marxist, albeit one who can admit Marx was wrong about certain things like basically every other marxist living today except nutjob MLs.

> has stated that she is inspired by communist ideals, although she does not consider herself a strict Marxist.[25] She has stated that she supports a strong state which can stand up to the Western world, and that she does not want "the scientists of Russia and of my native Kazakhstan to share the fates of the scientists of Iraq, Libya, and Syria, that were 'helped' by the USA to become more democratic."[26]

>>11701723Kazakhstan is a weird place since its been conquered so many times. You got mongols, east asian , eurasians, russians, slavs and germans in one place. So there is no baseline of what a Kazakhstan person looks like and the ones I have met have zero pride in the country and hated the islamic bullshit thats forced in their schools.

>>11701723As someone with university library access to virtually any publication I might need, I find scihub is still based because it lets me bypass the horribly convoluted process of obtaining said access when not on university wifi (which has been the case since lockdown).

1) Put VPN on2) Access library account3) Search in horribly obsolete library engine4) No access to publication5) You need to pay 100 $ to access the paper6) Another uni has access so they can send it to you7) Write a mail to the librarian8) Wait 3-5 days9) Receive your paper (maybe)

VS

1) Find the DOI number2) Put in Sci-Hub3) Instantly get every paper on Earth published after 1980, and 40% of those published before.